Comments on: More detail on the Fellowship Foundation relationship to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill http://wthrockmorton.com/2009/12/10/more-detail-on-the-fellowship-foundation-relationship-to-the-anti-homosexuality-bill/ A College Psychology Professor's Observations About Public Policy, Mental Health, Sexual Identity, and Religious Issues Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Bussee http://wthrockmorton.com/2009/12/10/more-detail-on-the-fellowship-foundation-relationship-to-the-anti-homosexuality-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-222516 Michael Bussee Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:20:49 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=5521#comment-222516 Lynn David: Thanks for posting the article Obed K Katureebe. Looks like it could be very good news. Up all night following the news on Facebook. Lynn David: Thanks for posting the article Obed K Katureebe. Looks like it could be very good news. Up all night following the news on Facebook.

]]> By: Lynn David http://wthrockmorton.com/2009/12/10/more-detail-on-the-fellowship-foundation-relationship-to-the-anti-homosexuality-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-222511 Lynn David Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:43:38 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=5521#comment-222511 While we're on a Ugandan theme here, Museveni is in Cuba. And he has nothing but praise for them. Then again some Ugandan students are in university there. See: http://www.mediacentre.go.ug/details.php?catId=4&&item=707 While we’re on a Ugandan theme here, Museveni is in Cuba. And he has nothing but praise for them. Then again some Ugandan students are in university there. See:

http://www.mediacentre.go.ug/details.php?catId=4&&item=707

]]> By: Lynn David http://wthrockmorton.com/2009/12/10/more-detail-on-the-fellowship-foundation-relationship-to-the-anti-homosexuality-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-222505 Lynn David Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:11:54 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=5521#comment-222505 Much transpiring..... Uganda Media Centre, Office of the President - This could be a win!!!! Homosexuality: we can still avoid foreign bad press. http://www.mediacentre.go.ug/details.php?catId=1&item=718 By Obed K Katureebe It states in part.... <blockquote>The Anti-Homosexual Bill 2009, yet to be tabled on the floor of parliament, has attracted unnecessary hullabaloo. Some western countries, with their cha...racteristic condescending attitude, are already threatening to cut aid if that bill is passed into law. Hon. Bahati has a strong point. However, I personally think that there is no need to have a fresh legislation on such unnatural offences. What Hon. Bahati should have emphasized is to improve the penal code just to widen the definition already existing. According to the Penal Code Act (cap 120), any person who permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, commits an offense and is liable to imprisonment for life. ... The promoters of homosexuality, who happens to have vast resources at their disposal and a global reach, have confused human rights groups to portray homosexuality as a human rights issue. But rights must be based on values. However, the country should recognise the impressionable body politic and civil society groups in developed economies of the west. With their clever portrayal of the fight against homosexuality as a human rights abuse, the attachment of the adjectives like fascist to regime may lead to policy reviews. Which is why I call on the government to avoid the bad press. Since homosexuality is already criminalised in Uganda, one wonder whether parliament is utilising its time optimally by focusing on homosexuality when the majority of our people are suffering from hunger, lack of access to water and disease and collapsing infrastructure.</blockquote> Well, except from the absolute stupidity at the end which said: <blockquote>As research has shown homosexuality is not a mental illness symptomatic of arrested development or that gays desires are genetic or hormonal in origin and that there is no choice involved. Homosexual behavior is learned. According to research by Dr. Cameron, no scientific research has... See More found provable biological or genetic differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals that were not caused by their behavior. Dr. Cameron is the chairman Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, USA.</blockquote> Much transpiring…..

Uganda Media Centre, Office of the President – This could be a win!!!!

Homosexuality: we can still avoid foreign bad press.
http://www.mediacentre.go.ug/details.php?catId=1&item=718
By Obed K Katureebe

It states in part….

The Anti-Homosexual Bill 2009, yet to be tabled on the floor of parliament, has attracted unnecessary hullabaloo. Some western countries, with their cha…racteristic condescending attitude, are already threatening to cut aid if that bill is passed into law.

Hon. Bahati has a strong point. However, I personally think that there is no need to have a fresh legislation on such unnatural offences. What Hon. Bahati should have emphasized is to improve the penal code just to widen the definition already existing. According to the Penal Code Act (cap 120), any person who permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, commits an offense and is liable to imprisonment for life. …

The promoters of homosexuality, who happens to have vast resources at their disposal and a global reach, have confused human rights groups to portray homosexuality as a human rights issue. But rights must be based on values.

However, the country should recognise the impressionable body politic and civil society groups in developed economies of the west. With their clever portrayal of the fight against homosexuality as a human rights abuse, the attachment of the adjectives like fascist to regime may lead to policy reviews.

Which is why I call on the government to avoid the bad press. Since homosexuality is already criminalised in Uganda, one wonder whether parliament is utilising its time optimally by focusing on homosexuality when the majority of our people are suffering from hunger, lack of access to water and disease and collapsing infrastructure.

Well, except from the absolute stupidity at the end which said:

As research has shown homosexuality is not a mental illness symptomatic of arrested development or that gays desires are genetic or hormonal in origin and that there is no choice involved. Homosexual behavior is learned. According to research by Dr. Cameron, no scientific research has… See More found provable biological or genetic differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals that were not caused by their behavior. Dr. Cameron is the chairman Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, USA.

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